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~ my 2cents ...

is your tv or cable reporter a journalist or Lawyer?


while it’s obvious why so many on cable tv are lawyers/journalist … knowing or having the mind set to question the legalities , using it as credibility, informing on crossing the line and acting as experts …

still strange to see and hear them acknowledge each other as lawyers while acting as reporters and journalists… what ever happened ?

it is apparent they aren’t as personable, relaxed and or spontaneous as real journalists and makes you wonder how much are they getting paid …

is it a position that pays them for being a lawyer first then tv reporter? or are they tv lawyer commentators? … where are the tried and true tv reporters, journalist and or commentators who aren’t lawyers ?

isn’t anyone who went to school for journalism upset?

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MJ thoughts …


It’s been a strange end to June …

Iran, neda, ed mcmahon, farrah fawcett,  MJ and others not mentioned on tv

the Media continues to focus on negative MJ coverage,  make comments like this is intriguing info  …

watch and listen to all the TV FODDER and SPECULATION but don’t put any credibility in anything being said until you hear it from the Family spokesperson or actual FAMILY MEMBER

meanwhile, his family has to listen to the various news outlets release reactionary comments that may or may not be truths … why was he still in a financial crisis with all the money he made?  speculation is he may have had people using him and spending his money, giving him bad advice, enabling him,  not providing direction and no interventions when it was needed.           let justice be brought to those if foul play is indeed the case

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Taibbi and other members of the Media


My opinion on  sensationalizing the death of anyone?

it’s disgusting but gotta say i turned the channel and station after station only made  comments about what was bizarre, strange and weird side of this man’ life…  made me upset

the man was dead or dying, these vultures needed to have some f’ing RESPECT for what was happening … and chose not to

listening to taibi and other commentators not only disgusted me with the nasty negative comments about michael jackson and his past …  it is disrespectful to not only MJ but to his family and kids

i accept taibbi’s opinion, but again it showed a disregard of  the death of a human being …  and totally unacceptable …
keep the negative awful comments to yourself  during  this time

i hope the people from the hospital who leaked info to any media companies get into trouble as well as any medics who called cable stations … totally unacceptable

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CW cancels ‘The Game” and Everybody hates Chris”


Is The Game Over for Black Television?

Protesters be damned, the CW is still trashing The Game and Everybody Hates Chris. Brace yourselves for a Tyler Perry existence.

  • By: Erin Evans | Posted: June 3, 2008 at 6:24 AM

Fans of The Game have been all over the Internet for the past several months, trying to save the canceled CW show with online petitions, Tweets, Facebook-status dedications and e-mail chains lamenting the show’s unceremonious demise. In an effort to save the show, the cast recorded a YouTube video, Change the Game Campaign, to get fans to blow up the message boards on CWTV.com.

To capitalize on the uproar, BET last week aired an eight-hour The Game marathon. I took the bait and ended up having a two-hour Tweetfest with friends, debating our favorite episodes and characters.

But the save The Game campaign isn’t just about missing its snappy one-liners. The recent cancellation of The Game and the also popular Everybody Hates Chris has drastically reduced the number of black faces on network television. It’s as if network producers have decided that only Tyler Perry’s brand of pandering, lowest-common-denominator blackness is fit for prime time.

my response to this 2008 article …

it’s  still relavant … Afro-American faces are far and few on (mainsteam tv) and as the new 2009 season starts we can look forward to Hawthorne with Jada P smith (cable) … hopefully more shows will be included … we have to commend Tyler P for keeping Black actors employed… in 2008,  while most Black Shows were being dropped he was going strong … to be continued …

we need to write letters to get more Afro-Americans on Mainstream tv …

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john and kate +8


maybe the whole story is not out there but it seems like her brother and his wife wanted a piece of the growing pie …

money does strange things to people ….

there is reality tv and then there is just plain’ole reality …

tv put an angle on their lives that we all wanted to tune into(i did) i have one and wanted to know how she/hubby cope … but … the parents personal lives(the lets get real stuff) should be kept out of it … the kids are all school age, all are probably dealing with the media  everyday … clearly including family, any possible break-ups and all kinds of misbehavior   should be considered before accepting a reality tv show, something the Gosselins have had to learn

I personally don’t care about the extra-marital affairs…however, i do care about the impact the MEDIA has had on the kids and their lives … actually the MEDIA is to blame … they exploit families … j/k+8 were all okay until the uglier side was available to dig into

crossing the line is something the Media has decided not to think about … why not choose to let them work on that outside of the camera lens